“I know this is what gargantuan corporations often do. His wife is also grappling with “serious medical issues,” he said. “I’d very much like my miniscule (though it’s not small to me) share.”įoster added that Disney has ignored his agents’ and legal reps’ efforts to collect the cash and pressed him to sign a nondisclosure agreement before even starting negotiations - something no one else has ever asked him to do.įoster said he could use the money as he battles “an advanced form of cancer” with which he was diagnosed in 2016. You’re certainly reaping the benefits of the assets,” Foster, 74, wrote in the letter released this week by the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America. “When one company buys another, they acquire its liabilities as well as its assets.
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In an open letter addressed to “Mickey,” Foster said he’s owed royalties for his 1976 book version of the first “Star Wars” film, which he ghost-wrote for series creator George Lucas, and the 1978 sequel “Splinter of the Mind’s Eye.” He’s also missing fees for his trio of novels based on the hit “Alien” films, which became Disney’s after it acquired 20th Century Fox last year, he said. The prolific author says the Mouse House hasn’t paid him a penny for his novelizations of the iconic franchise since its 2012 purchase of Lucasfilm, the studio that birthed Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader. Sci-fi writer Alan Dean Foster says Disney has been behaving like the evil empire from his “Star Wars” novels by stiffing him on royalties for some of his popular books.
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